Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating

I started meditating in April 2015 and in September I realized that teaching people to code is not something that the world needs right now. I realized that the world needs something else. Something more important. The world is full of suffering. There are wars, fear, hate, violence, poverty and a lot of other terrible things. I realized that people can live without these terrible things. I want people to live in harmony, love, happiness and abundance as I do thanks to meditation.

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after a long programming career of 3 years(!) he decided he wants to make the world a better place, meditating.

I started meditating in April 2015 and in September I realized that teaching people to code is not something that the world needs right now. I realized that the world needs something else. Something more important. The world is full of suffering. There are wars, fear, hate, violence, poverty and a lot of other terrible things. I realized that people can live without these terrible things. I want people to live in harmony, love, happiness and abundance as I do thanks to meditation.

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after a long programming career of 3 years(!) he decided he wants to make the world a better place, meditating.

This is why you should say nothing until a solicitor present when making a statement.

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to be clear, if he doesn't want to be a programmer, and is happy meditating, it's his life and he should live it the way he likes.
just don't try to make it pass as "i'm making the world a better place"

just don't try to make it pass as "i'm making the world a better place"

No, he probably is. Just don't think that making everyone else meditate will solve anything. Imagine, if Hitler were calmer and lived more consciously, imagine how much worse the world would have been.

If Hitler had become a Buddhist before his time, an equally charismatic but more rational Führer would have emerged somewhere to lead his/her people to world domination. Humanity would not have recovered. Oops I think my derailed.

Some people best contribute to making the world a better place by staying the heck out of the way; sitting in the corner gazing at their navels may well be their greatest possible contribution to humanity.

@gleemonk We can't know if the world wouldn't be better on the long term after an axis victory. Anything could happen. Maybe the commies would win the cold war, and having more resources figure a way to make communism work.

Just... by himself? Or... is he going to teach people to do it? Or...?

Well, if you actually read the article...

So the main reason why I quit programming is to teach people how they can live without fear, anger, hate, judging and others not so nice thoughts and feelings.

And... well:

You cannot change others. You can just change yourself and inspire others to change. Once you can live without fear, anger, hate and judging, others will wonder how you managed it. They will probably want to know how to live happier life. And you will tell them: “I just meditate a few minutes a day. I listen to my inner voice, my heart and do actions according to it. That’s my recipe for happy life“.

So basically, yes. He intends to be teaching. Blogging. Inspiring people. Proselytizing. Whatever you want to call it.

I agree with you. There wasn't much sign of expansionism by the Russians prior to the late '30s (the Baltic states) and that was quite possibly at least partially in response to what Germany was doing. Russia's focus was elsewhere, mostly inwards (purges) and eastwards (Siberian expansion). About the only thing that they would have varied from that for would have been for a good chance at a warm-water port that wasn't strangled by an opposing power such as Turkey or Germany. (The route to Murmansk is anything but a warm water route…)

They weren't even building up a military until after Germany built-up. Long after-- heck, remember how surprised they were by Barbarossa?

Yes and no. The politicians were surprised, the generals weren't. Of course, the generals were also in deeply bad odour at that time (because Stalin was a paranoiac, possibly with good reason) and so were keeping their heads down as much as they could.

On the other hand, the Russians had been moving their heavy industries east for a while (mostly along the Trans-Siberian Railway IIRC, which was a strategic asset of the highest importance). The Barbarossa campaign didn't take out the Russians capacity to wage war for a long time, and that was the key strategic problem with it. Indeed, I think Russia's biggest weakness was their oil supplies from the eastern Caucasus (what's now Azerbaijan) and that was why the battle for Stalingrad was so incredibly hard fought. That was one of the turning points in the war on the Eastern Front (along with Kursk and the failures to capture either Leningrad or Moscow).

But remember: their perceived threat was from the Japanese, not the Germans. So it would have been rational of them to shift their heavy industries eastward anyway.

I'm not convinced that that was why they did it; I think it was more of a general strategic move, putting key industries well away from all borders. In any case, it was what saved them; if they'd lost their tank factories to Barbarossa, they would have been screwed.

Even your inner voice's right to speak is protected by the First Amendment

Ah, but don't you have to prove which inner voice is speaking in order to enact it?

I think if ever any of my personalities would decide that integration was a Bad Thing.... well, I would be in for a Bad Time.

Psh. That war was fought, all the dissenters have been integrated, and you can't harm the system without harming yourself, so mostly everyone behaves. Besides, that's what Censor is for! Though there have been instances where it has failed or otherwise been rendered inoperable...

just don't try to make it pass as "i'm making the world a better place"

No, he probably is. Just don't think that making everyone else meditate will solve anything. Imagine, if Hitler were calmer and lived more consciously, imagine how much worse the world would have been.

Yes, fortunately president Trump does not meditate either. World War 3 will be better all for it.
What if this guy now goes and teaches Trump to meditate? someone give him a job in software ASAP, let him write PHP

@dkf I don't know without looking everything up again. What I was trying to convey was that Stalin was as bad if not worse than Hitler in some ways (mao I think killed more than both through boneheaded policies).

Hmm, complicated. Made doubly so by the fact that there was a continuation of Russian imperial policy (roughly “if it was ever ours, we think it should still be ours”) and that's continued pretty much directly from the 18th century to the present day. Not that other empires are that much different in that respect…